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bobble
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n 1: the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball; "the
second baseman made a bobble but still had time to throw
the runner out"
v 1: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and
we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult
passage in the second movement" [syn: botch, bodge,
bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub,
screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle,
fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up,
bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up,
fuck up]
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boggle
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v 1: startle with amazement or fear
2: hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or
fear
3: overcome with amazement; "This boggles the mind!" [syn:
flabbergast, boggle, bowl over]
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bottle
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n 1: a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other
liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a
narrow neck that can be plugged or capped
2: the quantity contained in a bottle [syn: bottle,
bottleful]
3: a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or
formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and
very young children [syn: bottle, feeding bottle,
nursing bottle]
v 1: store (liquids or gases) in bottles
2: put into bottles; "bottle the mineral water"
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caudal
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adv 1: toward the posterior end of the body [syn: caudally,
caudal]
adj 1: constituting or relating to a tail; "caudal appendage"
[ant: cephalic]
2: resembling a tail [syn: caudal, taillike]
3: situated in or directed toward the part of the body from
which the tail arises; "caudal fins"; "the caudal end of the
body"
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cobble
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n 1: rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make
roads [syn: cobble, cobblestone, sett]
v 1: pave with cobblestones [syn: cobble, cobblestone]
2: repair or mend; "cobble shoes"
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cockle
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n 1: common edible European bivalve
2: common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a
strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
v 1: stir up (water) so as to form ripples [syn: ripple,
ruffle, riffle, cockle, undulate]
2: to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She
puckered her lips" [syn: pucker, rumple, cockle,
crumple, knit]
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coddle
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v 1: treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper
the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn:
pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby,
coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge]
2: cook in nearly boiling water; "coddle eggs"
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cull
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n 1: the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as
inferior in quality [syn: cull, reject]
v 1: remove something that has been rejected; "cull the sick
members of the herd"
2: look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" [syn:
pick, pluck, cull]
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debacle
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n 1: a sudden and violent collapse [syn: debacle, fiasco]
2: flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river
during the spring or summer
3: a sound defeat [syn: thrashing, walloping, debacle,
drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping]
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glottal
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adj 1: of or relating to or produced by the glottis; "glottal
stops"
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gobble
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n 1: the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock
v 1: eat hastily without proper chewing; "Don't bolt your food!"
[syn: gobble, bolt]
2: make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys
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sparkle
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n 1: merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation
of countenance; "he had a sparkle in his eye"; "there's a
perpetual twinkle in his eyes" [syn: sparkle, twinkle,
spark, light]
2: the occurrence of a small flash or spark [syn: glitter,
sparkle, coruscation]
3: the quality of shining with a bright reflected light [syn:
glitter, glister, glisten, scintillation, sparkle]
v 1: reflect brightly; "Unquarried marble sparkled on the
hillside" [syn: sparkle, scintillate, coruscate]
2: be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity; "The musical
performance sparkled"; "A scintillating conversation"; "his
playing coruscated throughout the concert hall" [syn:
sparkle, scintillate, coruscate]
3: emit or produce sparks; "A high tension wire, brought down by
a storm, can continue to spark" [syn: spark, sparkle]
4: become bubbly or frothy or foaming; "The boiling soup was
frothing"; "The river was foaming"; "Sparkling water" [syn:
foam, froth, fizz, effervesce, sparkle, form
bubbles]
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stopple
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n 1: blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole
tightly [syn: plug, stopper, stopple]
v 1: close or secure with or as if with a stopper; "She
stoppered the wine bottle"; "The mothers stoppered their
babies' mouths with pacifiers" [syn: stopper, stopple]
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throttle
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n 1: a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine
[syn: accelerator, throttle, throttle valve]
2: a pedal that controls the throttle valve; "he stepped on the
gas" [syn: accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal,
gas, throttle, gun]
v 1: place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of
this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your
friends" [syn: restrict, restrain, trammel, limit,
bound, confine, throttle]
2: kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he
tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been
strangling several dozen prostitutes" [syn: strangle,
strangulate, throttle]
3: reduce the air supply; "choke a carburetor" [syn: choke,
throttle]
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toddle
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v 1: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle,
coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle]
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toggle
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n 1: any instruction that works first one way and then the
other; it turns something on the first time it is used and
then turns it off the next time
2: a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions [syn:
toggle switch, toggle, on-off switch, on/off switch]
3: a fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is
inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a
cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or
chain or cable)
v 1: provide with a toggle or toggles
2: fasten with, or as if with, a toggle
3: release by a toggle switch; "toggle a bomb from an airplane"
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topple
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v 1: fall down, as if collapsing; "The tower of the World Trade
Center tumbled after the plane hit it" [syn: tumble,
topple]
2: cause to topple or tumble by pushing [syn: topple,
tumble, tip]
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twaddle
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n 1: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney,
boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug,
taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle]
v 1: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
[syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-
tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab,
gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble]
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waddle
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n 1: walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one
foot to the other; "ducks walk with a waddle"
v 1: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle,
coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle]
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wobble
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n 1: an unsteady rocking motion
v 1: move unsteadily; "His knees wobbled"; "The old cart wobbled
down the street" [syn: wobble, coggle]
2: move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out
of control" [syn: careen, wobble, shift, tilt]
3: tremble or shake; "His voice wobbled with restrained emotion"
[syn: shimmy, wobble]
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cul
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n 1: a passage with access only at one end [syn: cul, cul de
sac, dead end]
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monarchal
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adj 1: having the characteristics of or befitting or worthy of a
monarch; "monarchical gestures"; "monarchal pomp" [syn:
monarchal, monarchical]
2: ruled by or having the supreme power resting with a monarch;
"monarchal government"; "monarchical systems" [syn:
monarchal, monarchical, monarchic]
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popple
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brockel
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knochel
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mochel
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rockel
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stockel
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gonococcal
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kochel
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